Like storm clouds gathering over the Alps north of Milan, the fall semester of 2004 saw emails start to trickle in from Honors English students who'd been assigned The Da Vinci Code as a topic. Did I know, they wondered (having read the book), if there was any basis in fact therein from which they could construct some sort of an informed paper?
Trickle becoming flood, I resorted to writing an article that flatly stated the book has a really bad factual batting average -- at least as far as Art History information goes. Which is why, in spite of its preface stating everything in The Da Vinci Code is "FACT," one needs to remember it is a fictitious novel, carefully re-read the preface and proceed with all due caution.
Dear, earnest, never-following-up students. I will forever wonder why you were given this assignment, if you made your papers' deadlines and whether or not you got satisfactory marks. I sincerely hope you have since gotten acceptance notices from your universities of choice, even though you cannot pursue a Baccalaureate degree in "symbology."
Buy a reproduction of the drawing Storm in an Alpine Valley.
Trickle becoming flood, I resorted to writing an article that flatly stated the book has a really bad factual batting average -- at least as far as Art History information goes. Which is why, in spite of its preface stating everything in The Da Vinci Code is "FACT," one needs to remember it is a fictitious novel, carefully re-read the preface and proceed with all due caution.
Dear, earnest, never-following-up students. I will forever wonder why you were given this assignment, if you made your papers' deadlines and whether or not you got satisfactory marks. I sincerely hope you have since gotten acceptance notices from your universities of choice, even though you cannot pursue a Baccalaureate degree in "symbology."
Buy a reproduction of the drawing Storm in an Alpine Valley.